You can read last week’s issue of Intergalactic Mixtape before this week’s issue comes out tomorrow evening!

I'm claiming responsibility for this one. 😌

me trying to get on a publisher list only to read "should have 1000 followers" and I'm like

Meta or Twitter, it amazes me I spent so much time on apps that suppressed links to my work.

💜🎆 For everyone who wants to migrate their old pinned posts to a bookmark post.

Hear my full review of THE WITCH ROADS by @kateelliottsff.bsky.social (available now from @torbooks.bsky.social) and see how the drink is made at Bar Cart Bookshelf on YouTube. PLUS, ENTER TO WIN A COMPLETE DUOLOGY SET!! youtu.be/6Y1J8-Ssepk

I’ve been reading for work (awards, blurbs) but haven’t read a book just for me in a while. Enter THE RAVEN SCHOLAR. I stayed up too late reading last night & immediately started reading as soon as I woke up. Wonderful! About halfway, so no spoilers pls. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/anton...

Okay, which of my Canada folks are going to this now so they run out of chairs? 😂

I'm halfway through Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy and I'm in love with it so far. The characters are charming and complicated, the world building is the perfect weight for the story, and even though the whole plot reveals itself early on, it's such charming fun watching it develop.

The little frisson of excitement I get when I love a book and can go to an author’s contact form and say hey I loved this!!! is PRETTY GOOD. Highly recommended.

i'm so tired all the time this is untenable

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Can we please go back to blogs and RSS? 😭

My collection is complete, but I do not understand why publishers cannot make things MATCH. I am IN PAIN.

I read The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi, the latest entry in the Old Man's War series! I had fun, which was the main thing I wanted from this book. I give it a Family Sized bag of Nerd Gummy Clusters out of 10. 🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2025/09/22/t...

Do it. It was sincerely one of the best decisions I’ve made

I need y’all to stop unless you can also give me a loan. 😭😭😭

Renay's newsletter is always a highlight of my week!

Sometimes when I go to the library and get new books that are due sooner, I stop by the older titles and check out books I loved that I don’t have copies of and take them home for a bit to flip through, since they’ll be coming back with the new books. I am a sappy book person.

Happy fall stoat day

If y'all are going to feverishly import all of that man's all-caps ramblings over here to shriek about, the least you can do is put his fucking name in your alt text so I don't have to participate in your obsession

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! Get more fandom commentary, SFF reviews/discussions, and book news than you can shake a stick at. #booksky

One thing the Hugo Award rec sheet struggles with is artists. Are you an SFF artist, or do you know any that have done work in 2025? Our professional artist and fan artist categories need some love. #art #HugoAwards

ICYMI: I wrote about the corporate-IP-ification of fanfic, and how heavily normative biases inflect what's being plucked out of fandom for big fancy book deals.

I read The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi, the latest entry in the Old Man's War series! I had fun, which was the main thing I wanted from this book. I give it a Family Sized bag of Nerd Gummy Clusters out of 10. 🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2025/09/22/t...

Hey y’all, if you are using the setting to remind you to use alt text, you might want to check and make sure it’s still on. I know for a fact that it I had it on for me, but it seems to have turned itself off at some point.

Just stay off the platform. Let the absence of Disney give birth to new creative voices.

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism." @readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom): reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

Happy Tuesday!

Wow, glad I wasn’t on Bluesky much today! The ableism from some corners really popped off!

A dream of the fields study

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week: personal essay recs, reviews, fun discussion threads, and a new column that @readingtheend.bsky.social is helping me launch: Bonus Track, for extra specialized rec lists. This time: SFF to read based on The Babysitters Club Super Specials.

I’m SO tired of this reading slump I’m trapped in. I have tried so many books and it’s not the books, it’s my attention span given…everything. 😭

I woke up to drama in the duck stamp contest community as someone shared a conspiracy theory that the famous brothers were conspiring to make their art define the contest so they can win over and over and I'm mad at how reasonable this sounds now that I understand HOW MUCH money these artists make.

Every time I am tempted to dunk quote or respond negatively, I go look at some cute art and maybe repost it instead. Sometimes the dopamine of reposting works to trick my brain AND I get to share cool art that cheers me up (humans are so cool). This does of course mean I repost A LOT of art.

Secretary: Oh hey, you're back earlier than expected. Interior Designer: Bed's haunted. Secretary: What? Interior Designer *loading a pistol*: Bed's haunted.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

One of the reasons I love the Intergalactic Mixtape newsletter by @renay is that I find interesting things I somehow missed, like "(It's Not) The Death of Criticism (Again)" by @mollytempleton.com on Reactor. reactormag.com/its-not-the-...

Fuck your app. I want to be able to visit your website and do everything I need to do there. Apps are for specific functions, the way computer programs used to be.

If (unlike me) you still have reposts turned on you can tell when I read the weeks Intergalactic Mixtape because I suddenly boost a bunch of excellent art

I am studiously avoiding spoilers for the duck stamp contest results until I watch the livestream. My favorite made it to round two but only got three IN’s so I fear this may be its last hurrah.

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

stay 𝚐̶𝚘̶𝚕̶𝚍̶ pink, pony𝚋̶𝚘̶𝚢̶ club

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week: personal essay recs, reviews, fun discussion threads, and a new column that @readingtheend.bsky.social is helping me launch: Bonus Track, for extra specialized rec lists. This time: SFF to read based on The Babysitters Club Super Specials.

Here's one thing you can do: a disney+ subscription is around 16 dollars. Go on Patreon/Kofi, find your top 16 creators/youtubers with less than a million subscribers and give them each $1 a month. Changes lives, believe me

ooh what could the surprise rec list be, can't be anything relating to a popular and famous middle-grade book series that the KPop Demon Hunters girlies are making into a musical

Thread. This.